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Tony Rowe
@bagelpriest
Drexel U. professor of Game Design and Production. Technical Mentor for Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio. Game historian and fixer of old tech.
Jun 11, 2019 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
@DavidBFox @LucasfilmGames @ILMxLAB There is a great story there. Lucas sold all video rights to Atari, but Parker Bros. claimed it because sister co. Kenner had rights to make Star Wars "toys and games." Do "video games" count as "games?" Nobody thought about this detail in 76/77 when they wrote the contract. 1/? @DavidBFox @LucasfilmGames @ILMxLAB One problem: Parker Bros. never developed a video game before. Parker's engineers reverse-engineered the Atari VCS and planned to hire developers to fill their now-empty electronic games dept. Lucas sent Ed Catmull and head of Lucas Licensing to check out the facility. 2/?